Hydrogen cars? Fahgeddabeddit!

groschke at luminousvoid.net groschke at luminousvoid.net
Mon Mar 10 15:50:41 PST 2003


On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> > store energy from green resources (wind
> > solar) than current batteries do.
>
> Wait, how do you make hydrogen out of solar cells or windmills?
>
> Hydrogen fuel cells are a one-way process: hydrogen in, electricity out.
> You can't "store" anything there, except the potential energy in
> hydrogen.

i think the idea is the chemical process that gives us the hydrogen is powered by the solar/wind energy. don't know the specifics but the hydrogen is basically 'distilled', thus converting the energy from the sun/wind into potential energy of the hydrogen in a hydrogen fuel system.

-gr



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